Billnpatti said:I have a small brass priming flask with a plunger type spout. I think it dispenses about 3 grains of 4f powder. That seems to work very well. I do as one of our members, Larry Pletcher, suggested and bank the powder against the hole side of the pan with some of the charge spread in the bottom of the pan to catch the sparks. When I do it this way, I get an instantaneous ignition that seems as fast as a percussion lock.
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Yer entitled to yer opinion. But I have handled several locks from way-way back in the day and am here to tell you I got all aquiver when I held and examined those beauties. The difference between precision machinery of today and precision in making things back then was time. Wouldn't surprise me if filing a frizzen (hammer) to fit and function perzactly took days. I'm talking custom presentation quality rifle, not later period military.I have to say that the best of today are better than the best of latter years but only because of the precision machinery available today that wasn't back then.
I agree. The fastest lock I ever timed was an original Joseph Manton owned by Lynton McKenzie. The second fastest was a Stoudenmyer (sp). Both were built like a watch. I considert the late English flint period as the high water mark in flint production.Rifleman1776 said:Yer entitled to yer opinion. But I have handled several locks from way-way back in the day and am here to tell you I got all aquiver when I held and examined those beauties. The difference between precision machinery of today and precision in making things back then was time. Wouldn't surprise me if filing a frizzen (hammer) to fit and function perzactly took days. I'm talking custom presentation quality rifle, not later period military.
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